Hello , Scott , Nice to meet you at Shrewsbury . http://shrewsburyfolkfestival.blogspot.com/2007/08/photos.html for lots of pictures . Some german websites...
I have booked the venues in Lancaster for the 25th,26th and 27th of April 2008 I would welcome suggestions as to who you would like to see performing and what...
Sorry Scott, was way down in the Vendee having a well earned break from work. Yes please to the fest next year...... Have just spent the day playing at Little...
hi my name is Ian (16), I come from Germany and I'm very intressted in hurdy gurdy's ...saveing money to buy a symphone HG so I need some advice... what...
The lira organizzata sounds really lovely, only saw the original at the V&A a couple of weeks ago. Are there any recordings available on CD? And something that...
The lira organizzata or vielle organisée, is a hurdy-gurdy with a set of fipple (whistle)pipes similar to a small portative organ and sounding like a descant...
... some mad person coming along and forcing it (probably against its will) to play pipes as well do you know if there are any sound samples on the net? ... ...
The handle powers both the wheel AND the bellows? Wow... The chanter strings are played using the keys like a normal HG, right? But how are the pipes played?...
... Well done, Matthias and friends. That's really exciting! SOme years ago I was really keen to do this but didn't have the resources. More please. ...
That reminds me of something a concert harpist friend says all the time: "A harpist is a kind of musician that spends half his life tuning his instrument, and...
Hello Everybody, I am back from my long holiday and will post some pics about hurdy gurdy and bagpipe camp a la Hungarian in good time. In the meantime I ...
Here's another bit of gurdy playing on YouTube, this time from Blackmore's Night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B06GiUcUv4o Is that a Helmut Gotschy...
Its a very fine old Dutch (1551) tune and they did a great job with it The tune is "Die vier Branlen" published by Tielman Susato You can find a 4 part setting...
Hello Cecilia Augusto, a new member from Brazil, here... Is there any possibility you could send those music score over the Internet (I don't know, in PDF...
Ritchie Blackmore is playing one of Gotschy´s phoenix gurdies. They are okay for a beginners instrument, stable and easy to tune and maintain but the sound is...
Hey. I have just come home from a late summer holyday and I never got to answer this post before I left. I just want to thank people the advises Regards ...
I have a Gotschy Phoenix, and absolutely love it. I've had it since 2001 and have no plans to change it (although I may get a second gurdy one day...) As you...
You are right about the sound on Youtube. I have been playing Phoenix Abraxas for the last 2 ½ year myself and I have also tried quite a few of Gotschy´s...
Hi Judith "scrummy" is English slang for "Scrumptious" meaning delicious, normally applied to food In general usage now it can be applied to anything enjoyable...
Hello, I am running some hurdy gurdy workshops at the Festival Des Panards, Otley, near Leeds on Saturday 13th October. The festival starts on the Friday...
I saw recently here in France a lady playing a H/G which had a violin type fine tuner fitted to each sympathetic string. These were the cheap tuners that fit...
Galician luthier Jaime Rebollo also uses fine tuners on chanterelles on all his models... He's making me a lovely HG as we speak - his waiting line is long...
I know the tune as "Quarter Brawle". There is a version of it (and other tunes) at http://www.luthiers60.freeserve.co.uk/pdfs/tunebook.pdf Gerald ... with it ...
I built fine tuners into my home made hg (for tthe chanterelles) its in the photoe's under Robins homebuild. I reckon it would not take much to adapt any tail...
Not on sympathetic strings but on the chantrelles. I wish I had them on all the strings. Much easier to tune than the pegs which, if nice and tight, are harder...
Gerald, That's my tune book !! I had forgotten that it was in there and called Quarter Brawl I did get the Susato attribution correct I am curious whether you...
